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Well...apparently the Senate isn't ruling against Trump taking more military action against Venezuela Senate GOP shields Trump from limits to his war powers in Venezuela after Vance breaks tie So much for Congress reeling in the President.

@Retired AF Guy posted back at the end of December that Noah was reporting on his True North Strategic Review substack that it was MH-60M's that we were expected to get.Future Helicopters

or....the Venezuelan air defence systems simply were not operational due to maintenance issues... https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01/12/8015770/ The last portion lends some credence to the suggestions that there may have been some type of agreement between Trump and Putin for Russia...

FTFY

I'm definitely not saying I agree with Trump on this and totally agree that the position of US dominance has been the intentional policy of the US Governments from the end of WWII up to Trump. I'm simply suggesting how his real estate background may help explain his overly simplistic view of...

How long does it take for one of those new sailors to become DP1 qualified? Able to take on a leadership role? To be proficient enough to take on a training role? Take a command role? 210 crew on a River-class isn't made up of just Able/Leading/Master Seaman positions. Increased recruiting...

The key to understanding Trump on this is to remember that his background is in real estate. You don't renovate a property that you're renting. In Trump's mind the US needs Greenland for defence due to its strategic location. Just like he bristles at spending to have US forces in Europe to...

And the warning makes me wonder what you have the mammoth doing!

Just throwing this out there as a hypothetical at this point. For the sake of argument let's say the US makes some type of deal with a Greenlandish Quisling leader to purchase/annex Greenland in some way. Nothing following a Danish constitutional process that Copenhagen would consider lawful...

The ASW capability of the MQ-9B continues to evolve with deployment of Multi-static Active Coherent Sonobuoys (and double the number previously available). Hopefully this is a capability that the RCAF will adopt as I see the ASW role of the Sea Guardian being of ever increasing importance to...

Deter Russia by moving a considerable force out of Europe and away from the Russian border to North America? Is there really a serious threat of Russian or Chinese invasion of Greenland? Is a Russian invasion fleet going to pass through the GIUK Gap, around the southern tip of Greenland and...

Wow, Putin must be laughing his ass off right now. Talk of Europe looking to send its already thinly spread troops as far as possible from the actual border with Russia in order to deter the invasion of a NATO member's territory from another NATO member. Tom Clancy couldn't come up with this...

China has now surpassed Russia in the size of their nuclear submarine fleets...and construction continues at pace with new designs coming online. https://defence-blog.com/china-surpasses-russia-in-active-nuclear-powered-submarine-fleet/

German Chancellor Freidrich Merz arriving at Charles de Gaul airport in Paris: Customs Agent: Occupation? Merz: No, just visiting

Let's not pretend that the US being the indispensable guarantor of Western security was an act of selfless altruism. It was always in their interest to be the supreme military power and to therefor be able to influence the foreign policies of the rest of the West to align with their own...

The Offshore Support Vessel is the only one of these that is a multi-purpose vessel with AESA radar, anti-ship missiles, embarked UAVs/helicopter capability, etc. This is the level of autonomy that I'm saying is overreach. The Type 91 is a single purpose arsenal ship that will accompany the...

The Ukrainians are fighting with small, remotely operated systems that are effectively one-way attack munitions. They may have strapped-on defensive systems to help them complete their missions but they are not really anything you can compare to the type of large, complex, autonomous...

I didn't say they would be using GM's or Ford's supply chains. I said they would have the same issues as GM and Ford have with their supply chains. Neither of these companies (or Hyundai/Kia) directly produce the many, many sub-components that are used to assemble their vehicles. These...

Freudian slip? I wonder how those nuclear subs are coming for Australia???

So I guess he can kiss his Colonel's pension goodbye?